Chongming Xianzong

Chapter 358 Three Years Later
Time flies, and three years have passed in the blink of an eye.

This year is the 444th year of Qianfeng, and eleven years have passed since Master Kang laid the foundation.

The seventh-generation leader of the Chongming Sect and the ancestor of its revival has been in charge of the sect for thirty-nine years. He is now fifty-six years old.

During these three years, there are a few things worth talking about for the increasingly prosperous Chongming Sect.

One is that after Shan Sheng, the head of the Shan family, passed away, two elders, Ye Zhengwen and Zhou Yixiu, from the Chongming Sect, went to Hong County together to pay their respects. The two went together, but their identities were different: the former was an envoy from the Chongming Sect, and the latter was the legitimate son-in-law of the Shan family.

With only the two of them, even if they held the title of elders of the Chongming Sect, it would be difficult for them to subdue the tigers and wolves in Hong County.

The Shan family of Feiyue has been operating the Feiyue Valley for a long time and have turned it into a fertile and well-developed land. But now that Shan Sheng, a foundation-building master, is no longer in charge, it would seem a bit foolish for the Shan family to continue to occupy the area. Among the foundation-building forces in the surrounding areas that are eager to grab a piece of the fat meat, who can do it?

But Master Kang has always been cautious in his actions. After Ye and Zhou arrived first, Jiang Qing, who stayed in Hong County, entered with Ji Yunsheng, one of the Four Friends of Hanshan. Soon after, Ming Hui of the Ming family and Mo Wen of Qiaogongbao all came. Li Mingyuan, the priest of Hemu Dao who used to stay with Jiang Qing at Lingshi Mine in Tanggu County, also came.

After carefully counting, the local tyrants in Hong County discovered that the Chongming Sect had called in six foundation-building people to support the Shan family. These six people represented five foundation-building forces.

Although some of them are extremely weak like Hemu Dao, there are also the four friends of Hanshan who are very talented and are in the limelight in Hong County.

Don't think that he is not to be feared just because Xu Liuxian, the eldest of the Four Friends of Hanshan, is the only cultivator of the late stage. However, cultivators of the late stage are also quite valuable, and these families can't even find one!

If you want to eat fat, you have to gnaw on the bones first!

The heads of the various families did not think that they could not do it, but they felt that it was not worthwhile. As a result, the various families began to think about retreating in the face of difficulties.

Ye Zhengwen, the head of the hall, saw what was going on. In order not to hurt the harmony, he proposed that each family hold a small competition among Qi-training disciples at Shan's house to decide the outcome.

The heads of various families responded readily. This solution was much better than fighting to death with powerful people of the same level.

However, things soon went beyond the expectations of those who were building the foundation.

Just after Chongming Yuan Er, who had hurriedly arrived, killed eleven fellow monks in a row with his hammer on the arena, the atmosphere in the arena became eerily quiet.

"The Ape Demon Cannon Hammer of the Chongming Sect has not been seen in the world for many years. How come it seems even more perfect when used by this short man?"

Some of the people present who had established their foundation and were of advanced age might have witnessed the elegance of Grandmaster Zhang in his past. They recalled how the latter dressed in flowing celestial clothes and killed his peers with a hammer without a drop of blood. They also remembered the humiliation of their elders at home who could only bow their heads and obey.

Among them, not all those who were in the foundation-building stage remained silent. There were also those who had truly practiced foundation-building and lost their composure because of the death of their capable nephews and nephews, and wanted to kill Yuan Jin on the spot to avenge themselves.

However, whether it was the shining flying sword in Jiang Qing's hand or the light words from Ye Zhengwen, "This is the close junior brother of Sect Leader Kang of the Chongming Sect", they could quickly calm down.

After all, tearing off a piece of flesh from a rather far-fetched relative of the Chongming Sect is not the same thing as bullying the weak junior brother of the great leader Kang.

Although these foundation-building forces who have lived in Hong County for generations are of inferior quality and were unaware of Kang Dabao's stunning success in the Fei family competition, Wu Cangyun, the elder of Hongyi Sect who was beaten to death by the latter, was already a great figure in their eyes.

He is the genuine elder of the Jindan Sect!
Wu Cangyun and his men couldn't afford to offend him, not to mention the even more ferocious Kang Dazhang. Regardless of what means the latter had used, he had indeed slaughtered a fake pill master who was in his prime!
Besides, the former has no bad reputation, but the latter
At this point, some sensible and considerate heads of the family have been seriously considering whether there are any close female relatives in the family who are of good looks and can be sent away to ease the relationship.

This time, none of the Qigong youngsters from various families survived! If they said that Yuan Jin's actions were not instructed by Kang Dabao, they would not believe it!

"This must be Kang Dabao's warning lesson! Don't go beyond the line again!"

Ye Zhengwen looked at the leaders of various parties who were building their foundations in silence and could only sigh. He called Yuan Jin over just to show his strength, but he never thought that the latter's methods would be so cruel.

Such a situation made everyone feel quite embarrassed.

Ye Zhengwen was obviously one of the people who felt quite embarrassed, but these were all trivial matters and there was no need to worry about them. After all, the effect of Yuan Jin's move was indeed good.

Afterwards, Ye Zhengwen did not let everyone return empty-handed after building their foundation. Instead, he marked out a spiritual field that had been operated by the Feiyue family for a long time and divided it equally among the families.

Not only could it save the faces of the various families, it also preserved the foundation-building spiritual objects and family inheritance that Shan Sheng valued most during his lifetime.

Afterwards, Ye Zhengwen could not resist the pleas from the Shan family, and with the intervention of Zhou Yixiu, the Shan family's legitimate son-in-law, he accepted the Feiyue Shan family, his former relative, without prior approval, and made them another vassal of the Chongming Sect.

In order to appease the Shan family, Ye Zhengwen also took away five points of the Shan family's 10% share in the Tanggushan mine.

After the news of this incident came out, there was constant commotion within the Xinyun League. League leader Ye Zhen wrote many articles to verify the facts and condemned Chong Mingzong's behavior of taking advantage of others' misfortune, which was extremely improper!

After hearing the news, the head of Kangda Sect was also furious. However, the matter was done and there was no way to reverse it. So he had to order the instigator, the external affairs elder of Chongming Sect, Ye Zhengwen, to return to the sect and reflect on his mistakes for three years as a warning.

And just half a year after Shan Sheng's death, Shan Shijie, the foundation-building seed that he had originally chosen, failed to build his foundation using the Five-Pattern Heavy Mountain Stone. This added to the grief of the Shan family, which was already shrouded in dark clouds.

This news could not be hidden from those who were interested. The surrounding families, whose appetites had been whetted by the little sweetness, began to sharpen their knives towards the fat Shan family.

Not only were the foundation-building forces unable to hold back, even the small Qi-cultivating clans under the Shan family were also ready to make a move.

However, it is quite ironic that just one month after Shan Shijie failed in building his foundation, Shan Shijie's cousin Shan Shiwen failed to achieve foundation building by taking the elixir.

As soon as this news was released, the gloomy Fei Yue Shan family's fortunes were boosted.

The surrounding families also changed their expressions immediately, and gave back the spiritual field that had not yet been warmed up as a gift. After Shan Shiwen received it, he did not rearrange it, but presented the spiritual field to Chongming Sect.

The head of Kangda Sect was a generous gentleman, so how could he accept it? After sternly rejecting it, Shan Shiwen offered it again. He was not allowed to do so again, but offered it again.
This happened several times before Master Kang, truly grateful for Shan Shiwen's sincerity, reluctantly accepted the spiritual field and handed it over to the care of the spiritual plant deacon Kang Rongquan.

However, half a year after the spiritual field was acquired, Zhou Yixiu's first batch of moon ferns failed and turned into rotten grass. The spiritual plant elder of Chongming Sect did not lose heart, but continued to work hard with his disciple Kang Rongquan.

Among the spiritual fields that the Shan family has pledged their allegiance to, there are some second-level spiritual fields, which are just right for Kang Dabao to practice pupil techniques and plant some moon ferns.

During this period, in addition to working late into the night and getting up at the crack of dawn, Master Zhou and his apprentice Kang also specially invited Zhang Qingran to come and give them personal guidance to help them find out what they had lost.

After another half a year, Master Kang finally saw the moon fern, a variant of the evil-heart grass that originated from the Zhang family of Fenli, which was thousands of miles away, in Hong County.

After spending some time with his beautiful wife and concubine, Kang Dabao, overjoyed, went back to seclusion. To this day, he has not yet come out.

The second incident was also related to Zhou Yixiu.

Under his careful cultivation, one year after the head of Kangda went into seclusion, the glass tree that he valued the most finally produced twelve glass relics. After learning about this, the Taoist Hei Lu went to the official temple of Sima Changshi and asked Changshi Buse to come and see it. After the latter looked at it for a while, he concluded that its medicinal properties were not much inferior to those in the original Buddhist sect's medicine field.

Now, all the twelve glazed relics are placed in the warehouse, waiting for distribution by Master Kang.

The third incident happened after the Black-Shoe Taoist sent Bushe back to Xuanwei City.

The Taoist had a reckless idea, so he broke into the Dianjun Military Officer Temple alone with a sword and force-fed the longevity pill into Yin Shangong's stomach. From then on, the old man could benefit Yunjiaozhou for another five years.

This rude behavior made Shan Gong jump up and down and curse for a while, but Heishi Daoist did not refute, but bowed his head and listened to the lecture. Then he set up camp in the Dianjun Mansion and practiced with Shan Gong for a while.

In this fourth matter, Chong Mingzong suffered a small loss.

While Fei Nan'ao was in seclusion to form the elixir, the governor Zhu Tong was unable to hold on alone. Unable to resist the slander of Yue Jing and Tie Liuyun, he accepted the unprofitable deal of attacking the Yuan family in southern Jing for the Jingji faction.

However, as the provincial court entered the battlefield and the war between the two sides escalated sharply, Governor Zhu deeply realized that Yuan Buwen was not an easy person to deal with.

Although they were both fake Dan, the fake Sima Gunshilu and the fake Dan ancestor of Yunwei Zheng's family could not suppress him even when they joined forces. Yuan Buwen also killed and injured many foundation-building real cultivators. Even Xu Yingshi from the Xu family in Dai County died in the formation.

But it wasn't just that they were no match for the enemy in a one-on-one fight. Zhu Tong later discovered that even if they fought in an array, their state court didn't gain any advantage.

Although the Zheng family received help from the provincial court, the Yuan family also had the support of the Liangyi Sect.

At first, the Yuan family stopped the offensive and retreated to their clan territory, but soon after, they pushed back to the state court and returned to Baisha County, where the Zheng family had built a fence.

This situation is certainly not good. Governor Zhu is worried about the unfavorable attack, while Tie Liuyun is leading the local foundation-building practitioners who are close to him to Dingzhou of Hongyi Sect.

The Liangyi Sect did not suffer any loss here, relying on Yue Jing's combat power far exceeding that of ordinary fake pills and Tie Liuyun's Xiezhi Guards who were indeed knowledgeable. On the other side of Dingzhou, there was also the Puzhou tyrant Shishan Sect who waved the flag of the provincial court as their backup.

After taking these two measures, the battle in Dingzhou went smoothly, and conquering cities and capturing camps became commonplace. It also showed that the Iron Commander had just sent out his troops and killed many people in Dingzhou.

This performance made Zhu Shi and his entourage, who were under siege by the enemy, lose face. As a last resort, they had to ask Fei Nan'ao to come to the Sixth Granny of the Fei Family, who was in charge of Sheshan Hall after her retreat.

After hearing this, the old woman did not refuse. She took some of the Fei family's idle children with her and went to Baisha County to help.

Although the abilities of the Sixth Granny of the Fei Family cannot be compared with those of Yuan Buwen, who has practiced the incomplete copy of "The Art of War Taught by the Halberd Bearer of the Wood Mansion Star God" and has magic weapons in his hands, they should not be underestimated.

At least since she entered the scene, the number of Foundation Establishment cultivators from the state court who were killed or injured at the hands of Yuan Buwen has dropped sharply.

Thanks to the Fei family's strong support, Zhu Tong finally had some hope of counterattack, but he was suppressed by two new fake Dan sent by Liangyi Sect.

After all, the order issued by the Star Picking Tower Master only prohibited the production of the golden elixir. Ordinary fake elixirs were not that valuable in the Liangyi Sect.

After that, Zhu Tong completely gave up the idea of ​​making meritorious service and stopped his activities, but he did not dare to withdraw his troops. He still keeps his troops stationed in Baisha County, guarding the initial battle line, waiting for changes in the war situation.

Ever since the two fake dans from the Liangyi Sect entered the battlefield, Yuan Buwen also lost his position as the commander in front of the battlefield. He could only watch these two fellow sect members practicing their skills outside Baisha County.

The reason why Chongmingzong suffered a loss in this matter was that although the state court did not force Chongmingzong to contribute money and men due to the strong insistence of the Sixth Granny of the Fei Family, it did allocate a lot of money for the transportation of supplies for the army.

If we win the battle on the front line, this would be a lucrative job.

But unfortunately, because the war was going badly this time, Governor Zhu had already embezzled a large amount of public funds from the Governor's Office for military expenses.

This was not enough. Many forces that migrated from Gyeonggi Province donated generously with the attitude of "the lips and the teeth are in the same boat", which enabled the war to be sustained until now.

Today, Zhu Tong really can't give out much profit.

However, in this way, the various forces recruited to do this will not be able to earn many spirit stones, but they can earn a lot in return for their "hard work".

On the other hand, Kang Dabao of Chongming Sect was in seclusion practicing pupil techniques; although Ye Zhengming was imprisoned on the surface, he was actually still consolidating his realm; so this task naturally fell on Jiang Qing, the only one who had time.

Because of this incident, the Chongming Sword Immortal has been running around for the past few years, and even his proper practice has been delayed.

However, escorting military supplies is not completely safe. If you walk on the Taiping Road for too long, you will always encounter powerful enemies with first-class stealth skills.

Besides, Jiang Qing has never been a quiet person. Since others have the courage to come here secretly, how could Mr. Jiang San not have the courage to go there secretly? !
Therefore, Jiang Qing has picked up quite a few ownerless storage bags of various kinds over the years, which can help to supplement the sect that is doing a losing business.

If we make a list of the battle records of everyone on both sides of this battle, Jiang Qing would be able to rank at the top due to the number of foundation-building warriors he has accumulated over the years.

I don’t know how furious Master Kang will be after he comes out of seclusion!

———Return to the mountain road of Xiaohuan Mountain
Accompanied by the heavy hooves of the beasts of burden, Pei Que and Mingzhe walked in front of a long team.

The war between Yunjiaozhou Court and Liangyi Sect in Baisha County may seem insignificant and restrained to the leaders of the two factions, but it actually has a huge impact on the ordinary cultivators around them.

The Chongming Caravan's business had just begun to flourish, but it was brought back to its original state. Fortunately, the head of the Kang family has been in seclusion most of the time in recent years. When he has time to check the accounts later, he will definitely sigh again.

The two of them were still unlucky this time. Even after being out for half a year and choosing a longer route, they still didn't make much money.

Pei Que was walking in the front, having already practiced the "Yingxu" pupil technique of the wild grade to the great perfection realm. The range of his visual ability was much better than that of his spiritual sense.

He looked out into the distance for a while, then said to Mingzhe, "Junior Brother Ming, the territory of the Seven Stars Sect is ahead. I heard that they have two mid-stage foundation building cultivators and three or four early stage cultivators. The fees they charge are always quite high. Let's take a detour."

Du Qing, who was handing palm petals to Mingzhe, retorted, "Brother Pei, we have to cross a river on the way out. There are rank 2 monsters in the river. We can't swim across, so we can only cross the bridge. The bridge is still controlled by the Seven Stars Sect, so we still have to pay the usual fee. It's unavoidable."

As soon as Du Qingfu entered the Chongming Sect, he was thrown into the stage by the head of the Kang family to learn skills. However, due to his aptitude, after so many years, he could not say that he had learned the skills well, but as an old master of the caravan, he was not bad.

Since he said so, then it should be so. Pei Que exchanged glances with the sturdy monk holding the flag, and after the six-leaf green lotus flag was hung high, Pei Que led the team forward.

Unexpectedly, when he was halfway through the journey, Pei Que saw an old acquaintance with a look of surprise.

"Brother Dao, long time no see!"

(End of this chapter)